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Today, Explained

They're calling it a revolution

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Historic protests threaten to topple Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. Reporter Reem Abbas speaks to Sean Rameswaram after being tear gassed in Khartoum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Usually when we call up journalists on the show, they're making time for us between deadlines.

0:13.0

Then there's Reem Abbas.

0:15.0

I was out today and I was coming home in a taxi and we were hit by piergats and it was

0:19.8

really bad.

0:20.8

So it took me some time to recover.

0:23.0

Piergats is not nice.

0:25.0

Sometimes a reporter in Cartoum Sudan and her country is in a state of turmoil right

0:30.1

now.

0:31.1

I have a baby actually so I'm worried about leaving the house with her because of the tear

0:35.2

gas, because of the protest.

0:37.2

I'm worried about getting arrested as a journalist but my worries are minimal compared

0:41.6

to other people.

0:42.6

I mean this has been what's happening for the last few weeks that there's a protest everywhere.

0:55.0

I can be an enjoyable.

0:59.7

Familiar slogans from the Arab Spring are now echoing across Sudan.

1:04.0

Beautiful, peaceful, they cry.

1:08.7

Their hands raised an empty of weapons.

1:11.6

It's like the most significant protest movement in Sudan.

1:15.4

The music to all the world, that the people who were killed in Sudan, they were not killed

1:19.8

because they did anything wrong.

1:21.7

The people who were going out, being bullied to say no to this cruel system.

1:27.0

It's all over the country.

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